Another car-related piece of pop culture from diskojoe, who writes: This is a sketch from a UK TV program done by John Cleese a year or so before Monty Python began called “How To Irritate People” that features Michael Palin & Graham Chapman that was a prototype of the “Dead Parrot” sketch that was based […]

Image by azglenn The enmity between Barrett-Jackson and Russo and Steele is no secret, and isn’t new. Most often, it’s been expressed in conflict over location, conflict I thought was at an end when in October, Russo and Steele announced a new, permanent auction location. But now, well, Russo’s going back to their original location. […]

Harley-Davidson was sick of getting their hill-climbing butts kicked by Excelsior Super-X and Indian 45s in the late Twenties. The AMA had established a 45-cubic-inch class for hill climbers in 1927, and both of those competitors immediately started producing winning bikes for that category, while Harley chose to compete with bikes using their underpowered 30-1/2-cubic-inch […]